---
title: MTL4RenderPipelineDescriptor
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor
---

# MTL4RenderPipelineDescriptor

Groups together properties to create a render pipeline state object.

## Declaration

```swift
class MTL4RenderPipelineDescriptor
```

## Overview

Overview Compared to MTLRenderPipelineDescriptor, this interface doesn’t offer a mechanism to hint to Metal mutability of vertex and fragment buffers. Additionally, using this descriptor, you don’t specify binary archives.

## Topics

### Instance Properties

- [alphaToCoverageState](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/alphatocoveragestate.md)
- [alphaToOneState](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/alphatoonestate.md)
- [colorAttachmentMappingState](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/colorattachmentmappingstate.md)
- [colorAttachments](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/colorattachments.md)
- [fragmentFunctionDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/fragmentfunctiondescriptor.md)
- [fragmentStaticLinkingDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/fragmentstaticlinkingdescriptor.md)
- [inputPrimitiveTopology](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/inputprimitivetopology.md)
- [isRasterizationEnabled](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/israsterizationenabled.md)
- [maxVertexAmplificationCount](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/maxvertexamplificationcount.md)
- [rasterSampleCount](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/rastersamplecount.md)
- [supportFragmentBinaryLinking](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/supportfragmentbinarylinking.md)
- [supportIndirectCommandBuffers](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/supportindirectcommandbuffers.md)
- [supportVertexBinaryLinking](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/supportvertexbinarylinking.md)
- [vertexDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/vertexdescriptor.md)
- [vertexFunctionDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/vertexfunctiondescriptor.md)
- [vertexStaticLinkingDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/vertexstaticlinkingdescriptor.md)

### Instance Methods

- [reset()](metal/mtl4renderpipelinedescriptor/reset().md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [MTL4PipelineDescriptor](metal/mtl4pipelinedescriptor.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Render pipeline states

- [MTLRenderPipelineState](metal/mtlrenderpipelinestate.md)
- [MTLRenderPipelineDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpipelinedescriptor.md)
- [MTLRenderPipelineFunctionsDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpipelinefunctionsdescriptor.md)
- [MTL4MeshRenderPipelineDescriptor](metal/mtl4meshrenderpipelinedescriptor.md)
- [MTLMeshRenderPipelineDescriptor](metal/mtlmeshrenderpipelinedescriptor.md)
- [MTLPipelineBufferDescriptor](metal/mtlpipelinebufferdescriptor.md)
- [MTLPipelineBufferDescriptorArray](metal/mtlpipelinebufferdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTL4RenderPipelineColorAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinecolorattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLRenderPipelineColorAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpipelinecolorattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLRenderPipelineColorAttachmentDescriptorArray](metal/mtlrenderpipelinecolorattachmentdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTL4TileRenderPipelineDescriptor](metal/mtl4tilerenderpipelinedescriptor.md)
- [MTLTileRenderPipelineDescriptor](metal/mtltilerenderpipelinedescriptor.md)
- [MTLTileRenderPipelineColorAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtltilerenderpipelinecolorattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLPipelineOption](metal/mtlpipelineoption.md)
- [MTL4RenderPipelineBinaryFunctionsDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpipelinebinaryfunctionsdescriptor.md)